Patrick Studer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Patrick Studer plays a role.

Articles

Studer, Patrick 2005 Text-initiating strategies in eighteenth-century newspaper headlinesOpening Windows on Texts and Discourses of the Past, Skaffari, Janne, Matti Peikola, Ruth Carroll, Risto Hiltunen and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 65–79 | Article
This study investigates textual organisation in early newspapers by singling out one important feature of news discourse that appeared in the course of the eighteenth century: the headline. The present paper argues that modern headlines started as foregrounded text elements of the news story before… read more
Studer, Patrick 2003 Textual structures in eighteenth-century newspapers: A corpus-based study of headlinesMedia and Language Change, Herring, Susan C. (ed.), pp. 19–44 | Article
Newspapers have recently become attractive objects of interest to linguists, but little research has been done thus far on news discourse of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The present study contributes to filling this gap by reporting results from a corpus-based study of early… read more